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I've been doing the UNIX systems thing (Solaris, HP-UX and Linux) for a while now but the one thing that I still sometimes get lost on is shell scripting. Now let me start with the usual disclaimer ...

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If you're working in a Linux environment, chances are you've encountered environment variables—even if you didn’t realize it at the time. They quietly power much of what goes on behind the scenes in ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...